Guest guest Posted January 15, 2005 Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 Thank you for sharing your background Sister Judith. For those who may not know, Sri Sarada Devi, also known as the Holy Mother to the devotees of Sri Ramakrishna, was Ramakrishna’s wife. Ramakrishna, when asked, himself indicated where his future bride would be found (in a nearby village). Ramakrishna was 23 and Sarada Devi was 5 years old when they got married. They live apart until she was sixteen and then she joined the great sage and played the role of his devoted wife. Sarada Devi and Ramakrishna were together for 14 years before he passed away. The story of the couple and Sarada Devi’s life story is truly inspirational. Sarada Devi is not as well known as Swami Vivekananda in the west. As was customary with Indian women of the time, she stayed in the background but Ramakrishna understood well her great spiritual power and treated her as the Divine Mother. After Ramakrishna’s passing away, she served as a friend and Holy Mother to devotees of Ramakrishna and books have written about her by Ramakrishna’s devotees who knew her. Sarada Devi was of immaculate purity and great kindness. It was her immense spiritual power and protection that comforted the disciples of Ramakrishna after his passing away and they were able to carry on. Well, it is nice to have you hear Sister Judith. Love to all Harsha color:navy;font-weight:bold"> font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">Sister Judith Thackray-OSAh [thckry_jdth ] Saturday, January 15, 2005 10:49 AM Re: [ - Ramana Guru] The True Import of the word, "I" 12.0pt"> 12.0pt"> --- wrote: Dear Harsha, Osiyo! (Hello!) It is a delight to sit with all of you here in this circle--this current post of yours Harsha--Ramana's words: "the full consciousness". . ."the all pervading reality"--"being non different in all the principles and being other than the sense "I am the body"-- are the kind of words that changed by entire life in my earlier years. It only took that one book by Paul Brunton, The Secret Path, I think it was called, and Sri Ramana had my entire devotion forever. I then took initiation in the Sarada-Ramakrishna lineage with Swami Bhashyananda of the Chicago Vedanta Center; he was a visiting lecturer at my college in Canada. I am now a member of the Interfaith Contemplative Order of Sarada in America (OSA), whose interfaith outreach is called the Contemplative Vedanta Support Network (CVSN). I live spiritual life as a Contemplative Vedantist, a Hermit of Sarada. I do a lot of work with persons who are following an interfaith sadhana. As a Cherokee-Christian-Vedantist, I seem to have been born to be interfaith! Saying hello and wado! (thanks!) from 8200' high in the Rockies west of Boulder, Colorado~ With love in Bhagavan, Sister Judith, rainbowbird~ tsisqua unvgoladv Eastern Cherokee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 15, 2005 Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 , "Harsha" wrote: > Thank you for sharing your background Sister Judith. For those who may not > know, Sri Sarada Devi, also known as the Holy Mother to the devotees of Sri > Ramakrishna, was Ramakrishna's wife. Ramakrishna, when asked, himself > indicated where his future bride would be found (in a nearby village). > > > > Ramakrishna was 23 and Sarada Devi was 5 years old when they got married. Namaste H, Yes I always remember that she said the K would rise automatically with japa..........ONS...Tony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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